will not log on to domain

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My laptop cannot log on to my office domain suddenly. It
has been working fine for about a month. The error
messages either say I do not have permission, I do I am
the administrator on both systems, or that it cannot
connect to the server. The messages tell me it is
talking to the server, but some how has lost permission
to access it. Is there some setting in XP that kills a
network logon after a certain time?
Any assistance welcome personal or web based

Thank you
S.Low
 
Can you log on as local administrator on the laptop? Ping one of the DCs by
name?
 
I get the "host unavailable". I can change the
laptopsetting from domain to workgroup-reboot-change from
workgroup back to domain and get the "welcome to the
<<domain>>" message-reboot and log on without errors.
However mapped network drives will not connect and I
cannot ping any other host. Then if I reboot again I get
the server not available message. I searched the KB and
none of the sugggestions I found worked.

S.Low
 
Are you on an AD domain? If so, do you have your DNS configured properly -
pointing all servers and workstations to the LAN IP of your internal DNS
server, with forwards set on the DNS server itself to Internet DNS servers
for resolution? Don't specify any Internet DNS servers on server or client
IP configs....
 
No it is a NT 4.0 domain. The problem turned out to be a
bad/outdated driver for the onboard NIC, or at least a new
driver seemed to fix the problem. It was an intermittent
problem so only time will tell.
Thanks for answering
S.Low

PS Do not ever bother with Dell e-mail support, they were
worthless!
 
Glad you worked it out.

S.Low said:
No it is a NT 4.0 domain. The problem turned out to be a
bad/outdated driver for the onboard NIC, or at least a new
driver seemed to fix the problem. It was an intermittent
problem so only time will tell.
Thanks for answering
S.Low

PS Do not ever bother with Dell e-mail support, they were
worthless!
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